until Monday June 24 2013
MACBA
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Plaça dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona
Spain
"Written on the Wind “The exhibition is an in depth survey of works on paper by artist Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942).
Weiner is one of the influential artists working in contemporary art today. His work spans from the early 1960s to today. His commitment to media in deseminating his work is shown in his range of production, from inscribed tangible objects to sound works to film. This exhibition will survey, for the first time, Weiner's drawing oeuvre, providing an intimate view of the artist's interests and obsessions, inceptions that show his view of the world and thus, the core of his work.
Language, the main component of Weiner's work, is particularly emphasized in Some Objects of Desire (2004), the large "mathematical equation" that has occupied the central wall of MACBA's atrium since 2009. One of Weiner's most emblematic works, it illustrates the artist's conviction that art is "an empirical reality based on the relations between human beings and objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings".
